Gold/Silver was my favorite. It introduced a lot of new elements of play and had several little improvements over the original (a meter that showed how close you were to leveling up, etc.), but it wasn't too far from the original yet.
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Gold/Silver was my favorite. It introduced a lot of new elements of play and had several little improvements over the original (a meter that showed how close you were to leveling up, etc.), but it wasn't too far from the original yet.